What's Next At Apple

pinqkandi writes "Business 2.0 is running a fascinating article on what might be coming up in Apple's future. Besides speculation, some interesting statistics are included, such as how the iPod should create equal revenue to the Mac for Apple in 2006, if not surpassing it. A good read for the Apple lover or loather."

It's a dup but...

[digithead]

...at least this time you can read the full article w/o being a subscriber. If you're into RTFA that is.

Re:PVR is...

[emmetropia]

Some folks are already on top of this, using the macmini *as* the pvr. http://www.centerstageproject.com/ [centerstageproject.com]

Re:What's Next At Apple

[kimota]

A two-button mouse, perhaps?

Um.... [slashdot.org]

Re:Mine's all legal!

[Gilmoure]

No, but I have spent several thousands of dollars over the last 20 years on cd's. Ripped cd's make up the bulk of my iTunes collection. I've only purchased 99 songs over the last year or so.

Re:Made up percentages?

[Anonymous Coward]

Well it's just par for the course. These corps are all maretking. Apple's hardware is made by the same OEMs that make the 25$ motherboards in the exact same factories using the same parts. It's all just marketing and marketing is just hype.
It's getting off topic a bit, but I saw another incredible marketing claim by the SBC and Verizion in Business Week after the AT&T and MCI deals. Trying to make the future look rosy they had projected an eight hundred percent growth in "video revenues" over the next three years based on what looked like less than fifty percent growth in the previous year. This was the brilliant plan on how they were going to offset the losses in local and long distance. First they lay down fat pipes so everyone gets blazing fast bittorrent downloads and then they're going to get rich on video sales. Okie dokie. Looks like they got it all figured out. If investors are dumb enough to buy that absurd scenario they deserve to lose their money.
As a matter of fact, prior to being bought up by its former corporate offshoot this exact same willfully ignorant sales pitch was precisely what AT&T had been pitching to gullible investors for like fifteen years straight. Every year till they literally sold the company it was the same hustle. Oh yeah video sales are going to really put us back on top. That and videoconferencing. You know that's the next big thing. Mmhmm.
Well there ya go, maybe Mac will take a tip from AT&T's playbook and introduce the world to video conferencing. Hah hah. Yeah. I'm sure it's just waiting to take off like a rocket if those technical glitches could just be cleared. It's all a technical issue and we're just around the corner from clearing it all up. It has nothing to do with personal psychological or social issues. Nah. No way. Just a little tech fix and the revenues will go through the roof. Shoooooore.

The most recent version of this investment scam I've seen is found in the Feb28th issue of Business Week on page 40. Check it out.

So there ya go. Mac is so hot. Let's see them make money on video. Beat Verizon and SBC to it. I'll be impressed if they can do that and I don't anticpiate being impressed by Jobs and Co.

Re:Mine's all legal!

[mkmoose]

A couple dozen audible books which I DID pay for are filling up my drive nicely. I have an extensive book on tape library and my music library. 40G != music theft.